Letter to the editor: Thanks, senator for your well-reasoned remarks

I wish to thank State Sen. Greg Gregory for his courageous and intelligent guest column of March 17 titled "It's past time to address mass murder in America." His column is a clear and distinct statement of reasonable gun control proposals "crafted from the center, not the extremes." How urgently our state and our nation need the kind of political guidance that Senator Gregory offers. And how urgently our churches need his concluding reminder: "There's certainly a need for 'thoughts and prayers,' but as we're told in James 2:17 'faith, if it does not have works, is dead.'"